About the Authors

Nobuhiro Sato

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft

nobuhiro.sato@monash.edu

Affiliation School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Reo Takaku

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliation Graduate School of Economics, Hitotsubashi University, Kunitachi, Tokyo, Japan

Hidenori Higashi

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, Japanese Red Cross Wakayama Medical Center, Wakayama City, Wakayama, Japan

Alan Kawarai Lefor

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Jichi Medical University, Shimotsuke, Tochigi, Japan

Takashi Shiga

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Emergency Medicine, International University of Health and Welfare, Nasushiobara, Tochigi, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.